81 
June 14 The Deputy anv Acrinc Comprroi.eR recommended to the 
oard of Estimate and Apportionment the approval of uae 
plans, specifications a amended), and the estimate of c 
as above stated. (J/bid.) 
June 20 The Boarp or Estimate AND APPORTIONMENT approved the 
plans, etc., as above. (Jbid.) 
Oct. 17 Bids received were opened as follows: William R. Thompson, 
$24,878; John R. Sheehan, $25,250; Kelly & Kelly, $26,200 
Coca Construction Co., $2 28,837’; Cockerill & Lyttle Co., 
31,000. 
The Ben Commissioner was pecuised by the Corporation CouNsE L's 
office, that the conta should not be let inasmuch as the ot ear 
did not Se to legal CEE in omitting the words equal 
in Specie et type of construction of the fee ee On 
this ground formal protest was re by two builders of greenhouses 
against letting the contract. The specifications, therefore, have been 
returned to the architects, to be revised, reprinted, and re- advertised. 
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APPENDIX 4 
MUNICIPAL ACTION ON THE TAX BUDGET FOR 1913 
IQI2 
Oct. 31 pasted by Boarp oF EstiMATE AND APPORTIONMENT. (City 
ord 40:9519. 23 N Ig12.) 
Nov. 26 Passed by the Boarp or ALDERMEN, as recommended by the 
Majority Report of the Committee on Finance of the Board. 
No change was made in the items of the Garden budget, as 
passed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. (City 
Record 40:9679, 9694. 27 N 1912.) 
Dec. 310 A message from the Mayor contained his approvals and dis 
approvals of the reductions and amendments o ne Board 
Aldermen in the budget as passed by the Board of Est 
mate and Appo ortionment. ‘Th he ares budget stands as ori 
inally passed by the Board of Estimate an A YAO HORSE 
‘ity Record 40:10189, 10205. 12 Ds 

APPENDIX 5 
RESOLUTIONS APPROVING THE ISSUE OF CORPORATE 
STOCK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR BOTANIC GARDEN 
UILDINGS, GRADING, AND WALKS 
solved, ae Feira to the provisions of chapter 178 of the 
Laws a te the Boa f Estimate and Apportionment hereby anULov es 
of the issue of paeeey e ae of the City of New York, to an amount 
not exceeding seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000), to pro ovide means 
for the construction of greenhouses in the Botanic Garden and Arboretum 
